If a single slightly grainy photo is anything to go by, on New Year’s Eve, Carlos Ghosn didn’t appear too concerned about his current predicament. On January 2, the French TV network TF1 released a shot of him at the head of a table, candles burning, wine glasses mostly finished. And seated to his left was his wife, Carole Ghosn, ostensibly just as even-keeled.

A few days earlier, on December 29, Carlos had escaped from Japan to Lebanon, where he grew up. The former Nissan executive had been on house arrest with a $14 million bail after facing a series of charges in Japan including embezzlement from the company. (Ghosn has always denied all the charges.) Details of his escape vary among reports, but there’s some consensus that at one point, he was at a holiday party in his Tokyo apartment; at another, packed into a music case by accomplices; and at another, on a private jet out of the country.

The cinematic quality of his escape fueled the global-news coverage frenzy, and on Tuesday, another primary character in the saga came to the fore as Japanese prosecutors issued a warrant for Carole’s arrest. She stands accused of perjury during a court hearing for her husband’s case last April, when, according to those prosecutors, she lied about her knowledge of a person involved in her husband’s alleged embezzlement. For now, the warrant likely won’t result in much, as Lebanon doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Japan. But it did, for a day at least, renew focus on Carole.

In past months, she’s traipsed the globe from Washington to Paris, calling on world leaders to intervene in her husband’s case, and she’s publicly objected to Japan’s treatment of her husband. Like Carlos, she claimed that his enemies at Nissan wanted to get rid of him because of a proposed merger with Renault. In a CNBC interview, she said, “We know it’s a conspiracy. Nissan did not want this merger…. A few people within Nissan decided to get rid of my husband, that was the easiest way not to do the merger.”

According to the South China Morning Post, the couple celebrated their wedding in 2016 at, naturally, the Palace of Versailles. Born in Beirut but raised mostly in the U.S., Carole previously had a career selling luxury kaftans. The Hong Kong paper also reported that she was named as president of Beauty Yachts, a company registered in the British Virgin Isles that prosecutors say was used to buy a luxury yacht in part with funds diverted from Nissan. (She hasn’t been charged and denies the claim.) Meanwhile, the French paper Le Mondereports that she was in fact behind her husband’s escape, though he’s claimed he acted alone.

An unnamed friend of the Ghosn family told CNN that Japanese authorities are “trying to intimidate an innocent woman.”

“Let’s remember that the last time Mr. Ghosn was released and wanted to give his side of the story, he was rearrested the day after,” the friend added. “We are again one day away from Mr. Ghosn speaking out and we are seeing the same threats.”

On Wednesday, Carlos is expected to hold a hotly anticipated press conference in Beirut. He recently told Fox Business that he will use the event to “name names” about what he alleges was his government-backed ouster. We’ll probably hear more from Carole soon too.